This brief outlines five best practices for container image scanning to manage security risk without slowing application delivery. It positions image scanning as a first line of defense in DevOps, detecting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before images reach production. The guidance recommends embedding scanning directly into CI/CD pipelines, automating policy enforcement to fail builds with critical issues, and using inline scanning to protect sensitive data by sharing only scan metadata. It also stresses the importance of regularly rescanning images in registries to catch newly disclosed vulnerabilities, scanning base operating system layers to avoid inherited risk, and identifying vulnerabilities in third-party libraries, which often represent the majority of application code. Tog

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